The first time I flew into Columbia in 1963, one landmark that stuck out in Columbia’s skyline was the Water & Light Department’s power plant on Business Loop 70. At the time, the electric plant included a series of low-slung buildings of different vintages topped by several stubby smokestacks. On the east side was […]
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President, Tracy Arey Real Estate AGE: 46 JOB DESCRIPTION: Real estate sales and development, new home construction. YEARS LIVED IN COLUMBIA: 21 ORIGINAL HOMETOWN: Born in Creston, Iowa, and then moved to Forest City, Okoboji, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Falls, Carroll and Cedar Falls, Iowa, before moving to Columbia, Mo. EDUCATION: I graduated from Linn Mar
“Christmas came early around these parts this year.” At least that’s how an older gentleman from Chillicothe expressed it after Missouri beat Kansas at Arrowhead Stadium. I really like football. But football in itself is not interesting unless you can identify with a team. It’s not hard to identify with the current version
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Crime, Lemone extension, the smoking ban. Not a day goes by without more feather-ruffling news from the soon-to-be-enlarged Daniel Boone Building. The Columbia Daily Tribune’s online news board boasts a dozen topics bashing city government. Even Mayor Hindman last week received Eagle FM radio talk show host Gary Nolan’s “Hamburger of the Week”
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A young professional stopping to drop off a donation at Upscale Resale might just find herself becoming a shopper as well. Such a fate befalls many area residents who clean out closets and cabinets to donate items to area thrift stores during the holiday season. Window displays such as Upscale Resale’s—a Ralph Lauren gold-glittered
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The United States is a giving nation. In 2006, according to the Giving U.S.A. Foundation, individuals and businesses donated nearly $300 billion to charity, more than the gross domestic product of all but 33 countries. Eight in 10 American consumers say that support of charitable causes helps earn their loyalty to a store
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Gov. Matt Blunt announced this month that he will ask the General Assembly to allocate $31.2 million from the 2008 supplemental budget to provide for the construction of a new Ellis Fischel Cancer Center. Leaders in the legislature indicated they also support the allocation University of Missouri Health Care’s construction plans call for the
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It’s tough to operate a public transit system—especially if your buses won’t function. That’s the challenge facing Linda Yaeger, executive director of the Columbia-headquartered transportation service OATS Inc. In a typical year, Yaeger would expect to replace 100 to 125 (or 20 percent) of the 600 buses that OATS uses to transport nearly 30,000
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Pollution can pay—if you own a forest soaking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or you use a renewable source of energy, such as solar or wind power. A system is developing that rewards companies and organizations that engage in environmentally friendly practices by allowing them to receive “credits” that can be sold or
When talking about his work on the city’s Power Supply Task Force, Tom Baumgardner sounds more like he’s preparing for a street fight than helping formulate public policy. “For a problem this size, it’s not going to be cheap,” said Baumgardner, a stockbroker with Edward Jones & Co. “We’re used to inexpensive power, and
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